LOL. That is so true.

I was Right when I was born, and I’m Right now.

I’m pretty sure his politics were not much different than the rest of the press, but it didn’t show in his word or manner. He probably had an area or two where he couldn’t control his bias. It would be hard for anyone to avoid bias completely. But that’s a far cry from someone like Peter Jennings–of whom you can say he might have one or two areas where he can do honest reporting.

About the only time you ever saw Brinkley roll his eyes was when another reporter was saying something stupid.

And although I may not have agreed with Cronkite about the war, I certainly believed what he was reporting about the war and did so for a very long time

Yeah. It was well into the 1990′s before I finally fully understood that the US had won the Tet Offensive in 1968 …that “Uncle Walter” had stinking lied to me …that Westmoreland had been right about the war …that we were complicit in the utter horror – the death – that was visited upon millions of people in SE Asia by our desertion of our frickin’ responsibility.

I continue to despise most of the mainstream media; frickin’ Adonis-worshipping liars, deeply enmeshed in their false veil of reality and enamored of the surety their beliefs …and so utterly and contemptuously vacuous of the shallownes of the well of historical perspective that they peer at current events from.

“Mind-numbed robots” indeed.

What is the difference really, between the way they act, and the way that a follower of a Jim Jones, or a David Koresh, or a Bin Laden sees the world?

They are despicably unable to say “I was wrong …sorry” when the depth of their error is so obvious to everyone else.

Pah. They are slaves to their historical ignorance, and hence doomed to repeat past mistakes.

“Useful idiots” indeed.

With limited supplies of oil to fuel it’s military, and unwilling to accept the humiliation of withdrawing it’s troops the second power lauches a pre-emptive strike agains the oil producer. Clearly the oil embargo is the cause of the reulting war.

So not only was Pearl Harbor FDR’s fault, it was also all about blood for oil.

That’s the understatement of the day. Those of you who were around and (mostly) conscious, what the hell did you think was going on in the media in the 60′s and 70′s?

Television news had come into it’s own and there was a new media superstar: the nightly news anchorman (or, as in the case of “Goodnight, Chet/goodnight, David”, anchormen; or, as in the case of Harry Reasoner having Babs Walters rammed down his throat, anchorwoman).

“The Most Trusted Man in America” decided that Vietnam was a loser and called for the end of the war. LBJ said “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America”. Johnson lost his presidency and the South Vietnamese lost everything. (Later, I believe Walter Cronkite was instrumental in ending another presidency: when he began signing off each newscast with the number of days Americans had been held hostage in Iran, it was perhaps the final nail in Carter’s presidential coffin. While in this case I may have applauded the result, I still deplored the methodology.)

Today we should have few illusions about Walter Cronkite, but back then he was indeed the Most Trusted Man in America. Why? Well, for one reason, people like I who went to school in the 50′s and 60′s grew up with Uncle Walter via the You Are There series. He was the comforting father figure who guided us through the dark days of the Kennedy assassination. And although I may not have agreed with Cronkite about the war, I certainly believed what he was reporting about the war and did so for a very long time.

The primary reason, however, that Cronkite (and Huntley and Brinkley and Reasoner) were able to hold sway as such paragons of Truth and Wisdom, is because there was no one around to tell us otherwise. There were no alternative media sources. Television nightly news was king and the NYT ruled the print journalism roost. Journalism had high standards, we were told. All the news that’s fit to print. And that’s the way it is. Truth, Justice and the American Way. There was no one to tell us otherwise.

Then of course came Woodstein who, through solid investigative reporting and lots of help from an FBI mole, brought down a man whom the establishment thoroughly despised. The dye was now firmly cast and the rest history.

Today there are no excuses. It matters little what motivates the presstitutes of today. It matters only that they be brought down and stomped, to death if necessary. As I’ve said before, the situation will improve once the 60′s boomers have passed from the scene, but we don’t have that kind of time.

I will admit that perhaps I suffer the aforementioned affliction!

I will suggest that the goal sought by the terrorists is impossible to achieve!

I will propose that the sum of the whole is greater than its individual parts!

I will conclude that alternative motives in the pursuit of truth…

http://www.rightviews.com/article.php?id=318

OJ

RightViews.com

“Zionism Has Forged The New Testament; 60 Million In The U.S. Alone Have Left Christianity To Become Believers In The Torah”

… We read history, and we know that since The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Zionism has forged the New Testament and by now, 60 million in the U.S. alone have left Christianity to become believers in the Torah.”

Take that, Roger. Now who’s the theocrat, huh?

http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=2722

What do you think of “Torah! Torah! Torah!” as a headline for a post?

Lee Harris is a Genius. In a recent Tech Central Station, he has a column that defines the War, from our enemy’s point of view, as a Blood Feud.

Now, the Blood Feud is the usual mode of battle of pre modern peoples, ie, most of the people in the world aside from those in the First World. Our type, the face to face Battle, on a Field, with a Beginning and an End, is peculiar to the Greeks and their descendents (us). Parallel to this, John Keegan talks about this in his History of Warfare.

Make no mistake, this is a serious war of civilization. Just one example: slavery. Our civilization stamped this out where ever it held sway. If we lose this war, slavery will spread back throughout the world.

And to watch those mediocre fools in the Press ask their stupid questions… well, thank gracious for the Web.